Do You Struggle to Manage Your Time?
My Tips, Tricks, and Magic for Creative Productivity workshop can help.
What Is the T2MfCP Workshop?
(Admittedly, that shortcut doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue…)
I can help you wrangle your creative spirit. I’m offering a beginner-level workshop on how to manage time, tasks, and projects as a creative person. Maybe your tasky brain invades your creative brain, or you’re so free spirited your creative time gets away from you, or maybe you're trying to squeeze creative projects into the margins of your Very Full Life. I can help you sort all that out without feeling boxed into a rigid method or tool.
The workshop will be a live presentation and discussion on Zoom:
Monday, June 26
4:00 - 5:30 pm Pacific Time.
Cost: $25 - (paid subscribers will get a 20% discount code)
Live on Zoom
Future dates will be scheduled if there’s an interest – no recording of the session will be available at this time.
Limited space available - register now to save your spot!
If you’re a paid subscriber to Jen Zug Writes, your 20% discount code is behind the paywall at the end of this post.
Workshop Description
I’ll share some basic tips & tricks for how to manage your time as a creative person who also has Other Duties As Assigned to manage. I’m not promoting a particular method, set of principles, or specific tool. Rather, I’m sharing different ways to adapt a task and calendar existence to suit your intuitive and wandering soul.
This workshop might be useful if…
You’re good at your craft but struggle to manage the administrative details around your craft.
You’re struggling to make time for your passion projects in the margins outside of a full time job.
You’re a parent trying to carve out time for creative projects in the midst of All The Things demanding your time and attention.
you’re in so many meetings (or have so many tasks/emails) that it’s hard to find time for writing or focusing on the deeper work.
It feels sooooo satisfying to check tasks off your list that sometimes you neglect the deeper work that takes longer to finish.
What others have learned in this workshop
“I found the way you organize your calendar super interesting/helpful. I'm planning on trying it out for my own calendar. Thanks for the great presentation!” - writer
“I appreciated the humanness of the presentation. Like, there's an understanding that we are not robots, so the tips felt in alignment with how to organize a human brain and get in the headspace needed for certain tasks.” - writer
“[I was] Reminded that I need to manage my time to better match/lean into how my brain functions. For example - carving out focus time during periods I naturally have more focus.” - Senior Director
“I can "slice" up my day in a way that's more aligned with my natural workflow and energy/focus levels - will be thinking about how I can better lean into those ebbs/flows.” - Manager
“[I can] be intentional about asking: What needs to be prioritized right now / what will I sacrifice if I disrupt my focus time? - Manager
“There is literally only so much time [available], so how you slice it matters.” - Senior Director
If you’re a paid subscriber to Jen Zug Writes, your 20% discount code is behind the paywall at the end of this post.
Why I’m Offering This Workshop
Let’s be clear: I’m not an organized person.
I’m creative and intuitive (INFP 👋), and I tend toward the “do what feels good when the inspiration hits!” end of the productivity spectrum. Any time I take an assessment to evaluate my leadership style or personality, I get placed in categories with names like Dreamer, Idealist, or Perceiver. One description of my “type” read that if I worked for a manager who values promptness, neatness, and structured decision making, I will have to work a bit harder to meet expectations. ( 🤦🏼♀️)
After a while I started to wonder if all the descriptions written for my type were written by someone who misunderstood and undervalued my creative spirit, because I’ve always felt the weight of having to work a bit harder rather than the freedom of leaning into my dreamer and idealistic qualities. After all, I’m good at being loyal, compassionate, and intuitive about people, but these aren’t the top qualities employers are looking for in a candidate (Why, tho?).
I’ve always wished that Getting Things Done came more naturally to me.
Beginning in 2010, I ran a small animation studio and wore all the hats, as you do in small business (or juggled all the balls, as the image suggests). Marketing & sales, client management, project management, and writing & producing videos were all tasks I was responsible for on top of generally making the business run as the managing partner. If I didn’t quickly find a way to keep track of all the details, schedules, and people, I would stop making money. It was a big motivation to figure out how to manage my time and make room for the creative aspects of my job (writing scripts!) alongside the administrative tasks (spreadsheets!).
Eventually I turned this skill into a project management job for creative teams, and now I’d like to pass along what I know to you.
Like me, you may not be a very organized person naturally, but I can help you find ways to make room for your creative wanderer.
If you’re a paid subscriber to Jen Zug Writes, your 20% discount code is behind the paywall down there 👇.